http://blog.oup.com/2009/07/riddle_solution/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2009/07/riddle_solution/comment-page-1/#comment-152862 Riddle Me Now, Riddle Me Then…:The Answer : OUPblog Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:32:26 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=4926#comment-152862 [...] with the release of the film A Hard Day’s Night and its title song. (See last month’s riddle.) Every record producer (called “artist-and-repertoire managers” in the sixties) and would be [...] [...] with the release of the film A Hard Day’s Night and its title song. (See last month’s riddle.) Every record producer (called “artist-and-repertoire managers” in the sixties) and would be [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2009/07/riddle_solution/comment-page-1/#comment-152745 Peter Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:21:35 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=4926#comment-152745 I really liked this book too. My book; True Love Is Not Common; www.eloquentbooks.com/TrueLoveIsNotCommon.html, has similar main characters. I grew up reading this author. Hope one day my book will reach many readers as this author. I really liked this book too. My book; True Love Is Not Common; http://www.eloquentbooks.com/TrueLoveIsNotCommon.html, has similar main characters. I grew up reading this author. Hope one day my book will reach many readers as this author.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2009/07/riddle_solution/comment-page-1/#comment-152574 July 6th – On This Day In Beatles History | The Beatles Place Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:08:16 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=4926#comment-152574 [...] Riddle Me That, Riddle Me This…: The Solution (oup.com) [...] [...] Riddle Me That, Riddle Me This…: The Solution (oup.com) [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2009/07/riddle_solution/comment-page-1/#comment-152567 Gordon Thompson Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:15:18 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=4926#comment-152567 A point of clarification and correction: although Ringo Starr by all accounts is the origin of the film's title and Hunter Davies cites the timing of the statement to late in the filming, evidence suggests that the drummer had had this phrase in his vocabulary for a while. For example, it appears in John Lennon's poem "Deaf TEd, Danoota, and Me" from In His Own Write published just as the Beatles were beginning filming. Lennon credits the origin to Starr who also uses a variation on it in an interview with NME's Chris Hutchins (13 March 1964). A point of clarification and correction: although Ringo Starr by all accounts is the origin of the film’s title and Hunter Davies cites the timing of the statement to late in the filming, evidence suggests that the drummer had had this phrase in his vocabulary for a while. For example, it appears in John Lennon’s poem “Deaf TEd, Danoota, and Me” from In His Own Write published just as the Beatles were beginning filming. Lennon credits the origin to Starr who also uses a variation on it in an interview with NME’s Chris Hutchins (13 March 1964).

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